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- The Transportation Security Administration will soon offer early retirements to employees across the agency. TSA says it’ll share the details and terms with employees eligible for a Voluntary Early Retirement Authority some time next month. TSA tells Federal News Network that VERA offers won’t come with incentive payments. The agency had received early retirement authority through April 2021 from the Office of Personnel Management. Federal employees who have 25 years of service at any age or have 20 years of service and are at least 50 years old are usually eligible for a VERA. (Federal News Network)
- The majority of the workforce at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is facing the prospect of unpaid furloughs in the next few weeks. The agency gets most of its funding from visa and citizenship application fees – those funding streams have almost evaporated in recent months. According to USCIS’s largest employee union, the agency has warned it will need to…
